I posted a couple of weeks ago about getting a proper solux lamp ( wont say bulb and upset any sparky's ) of amazon usa for just over £12 uncluding P&P.

well it turned up today, so off to B&Q for 12v drill now £14 but still cheap in the scheme of things, struggled to get a connector as screwfix don't seem to stock them solo any more so ended up paying £4 at local electrical stockist (bit steep - but wanted to finish it after waiting 2 weeks for the lamp

anyway here is the bits before starting

stripped out the motor, soldered and heat shrinked the connections then installed the lamp, found this a bit loose so pondered for a while then had a look of what bits I had lying around, found that if I wrapped 2 grommets used for electrical cable entry into backing boxes plus 1 on the on the other side of the casing it held the lamp perfectly, and gave a little bit of cushioning

screwed it all together and viola!

quick test on my car that needs a wash (its black what do you expect, I washed it at least a day ago )
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so all done for £30 - could have knocked at least a couple of quid of the connector if I had waited, but still think it was a bargain.

Now to save up for a DAS6 pro to get rid of everything I find

Minor update:
the lamp was working intermittently, thought it may be the speed controller switch not being presented with enough load, don't over think things, was just a loose wire, so if yours does not work correctly just check all connections

I still don't get why people are wasting money on a lamp from the US that won't make any difference to swirl spotting ability.

Coz it's all about making something with the same light source as the SunGun so it has to have the same bulb to be 'proper'. I'm sure there are other light sources with just as good swirl spotting ability but I don't think anyone has come to an agreement on it. Who care really!

Not trolling at all. The Solux lamp is identical to a plain MR16 lamp, but it just has a dichroic filter on it which is actually reducing the light output by filtering out some of the red and yellow spectrum from the lamp.

Seems a pointless exercise given that you could get a colour corrected dichroic MR16 from the UK for a less than £10 or a plain MR16 for a few pounds and you'll still spot swirls.

The only reason the 3M Sun Gun uses that lamp is because of the higher CRI for paint blending, not for swirl spotting or any other nonsense.

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Originally Posted by Scottish Storm

How do you know it won't? When I made mine I could immediately see the difference between the bits I'd polished and the bits I still had to do.